LIMITLESS 2026 Finissage & Awards Night

Photo: Neasan McGuinness

October 9

Finissage & Awards Night: Friday, October 9, 4:30-6:30pm

Galleries, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

• Visiting the exhibition

  You can find LIMITLESS in our galleries, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

  Our galleries are open Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm.

  Accessibility

  The Mill’s entrance has a small step into the building. We have a ramp available, please ring the doorbell and our friendly team will assist you.

  During gallery hours, our entrance will be unlocked. If the door is closed, please ring the doorbell to alert our team.

  The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

  Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.

  The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

  Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.

LIMITLESS 2026 is our annual fundraiser exhibition, featuring over 270 South Australian artists.

Join us for the final celebration and awards night, announcing the recipients of the Fuller Create Feeling Award, the CBS Disabled Artist Award, the Scotch College Emerging Artist Award and the People's Choice Award supported by the K&S Langley Family.

Your last opportunity to purchase artworks and make a night of it.

• Meet the artists

  Aaron Nassau, Abbey Louise Rawson, Adam iljee Albert Chim, Alice Hu, Alice Parle, Alison von der Borch, Alicia Butt, Alicia Dunn, Alix Rogerson, Amee Dennis, Amman Knight, Amy Southwell, Amy Yang, Ana Koch, Anadi Sharma, Anastasia Goncharova, Andrea Przygonski, Andrea Travaglia, Andrew Dearman, Aniqah Birader, Anna Goodhind, Anna Shen, Anne Smith, Annie Millard, Anthea Jones, Ariela Rose, Arlon Hall, Ash Weller, Audrey Menz, August Porter, Austin Tily, Aya Jade, Aya Trevisan, Aylan Buliga, Aysan Gholipoorkhalili, Aysh Field, Bec Francis, Bethany Cherry, Bianca Joanna Buliga, Brayden Wilkinson, Bri Hammond, Brick Laws, Bridgette Minuzzo, Brooke Walker, Bundy Bannerman, Caitlin Mohr, Cam Monaghan, Camille Rouliere, Carmen Alcedo, Casper Tucker, Cathy Matson, Catriona Smith, Chin Ton Naomi Tang, Chloe Martin-Dex, Christian Best, Christiane Niess, Christina Blair, Christina Evans, Claire Birbeck, Colwin Lee, Crista Bradshaw, Dai Trang Nguyen, Damien Warman, Dan Withey, Danielle Clark, David Grech, David Markus, David Smith, Deborah Smalley, Deklyn Hearn, Delphine Allert, Dina Psichogiopoulos, Eleanor Green, Ella Pietsch, Ellie Calligeros, Emiko Artemis, Emily Lownds, Emma Daisy, Erin Renfrey, Estephania Corbelletta, Evie, Evie Catt, Faith Monger, Fangzhou Li, Finn Watson, Fiorenzo Murabito, Frankie Acacia, Freddy Ramly-Peck, Hamish Fleming, Hamish Maggs, Hari Koutlakis, Helen Lawlor, Jacqueline Eyers, Jacqueline Lagonik, Jada Sharp, Jade Zander, Jaden Bressan, Jelena Fabri, Jen Gibson-smith, Jen Trantor, Jessie Lock, Jessie Hui, Jezabel Monkhouse, Jiguo Ma, Jingwei Bu, Jo Ferguson, John Hopkinson, Jonathan Pearce, Josh Coonan, Joshua Sleep, Joy Harvey, Judith Klavins, Jueyan Li, Julie Noble, Julie Peard, Julie Sanderson, Justina Legoe, Karen Kammermann, Karen Lownds, Kari Cooper, Karla Hitchcock, Kate Cuthbert, Kate Durham, Kate Verner, Kathy Hoffman, Katie Morris, Kayla Diamond, Keeks, Kel Hummel, Kelley Lewis, Kelly Fontanarosa, Kim Turner, Kimon Smith, Kira Raams, Kristy Bennets, Kirstie McGregor, Kirsty Martinsen, Kody Mohamad, Kristyan Evele, Koleta Kola, Laura Gent, Laura Wills, Lauren Downton, Lauren Kathleen, Leah Leventeris, Leigh Warren, Liliah, Lilla Berry, Lily Claridge Bell, Lily Peard, Lily Roach, Lin Markus, Linda Bromley, Linda Robin, Lindsay Nicholson, Lisa J Smith, Lottie Pea, Luca Rocca, Lucinda Penn, Lucky Smith, Luke Clayton, Lydia Eden, Lynelle K Williams, Maddie Stevens, Madeleine Coates, Madeline Dee, Mae Giselle Fagan, Marc Fullager, Mark O'Reilly, Martine Whalley, Matt Sheehy, Meg Mader, Megan Debicki, Mel Au, Melak Khaleel, Mia Behrens, Mia Osborn, Michelle Ann Kenney, Michelle Yazbeck, Miranda Bede, Misha Mazumdar, Mitch Hearn, Mokeira Moraa, Molly Pfeiffer, Monty Flora, Nadera Rasulova, Nadia Penta, Nella D, Nerissa Douglas, Nicolas Ottavio Saccardo, Nicole Haynes, Nicole Kolesnik, Nicole McQuillan, Oh Brother, Olivia Kathigitis, Parinita, Pat Smith, Patricia Walton, Peter Francisco, Peter Lloyd Culley, Peter Owen, Phil O'Brien, Rebecca O'Leary Rebecca Whittemore, Rebekah Rocca, Renata Rozenbilds, Riley Pickering, River, Robert Viner-Jones, Romina Ienco, Ronny Stone, S G, Sa'art Studio, Sabina Fisher-McCarron, Sakthivel Eakambaranathan, Sam Howie, Sam Wiechula, Sandhya Mulchandani, Sarah Keane, Sarah McDonald, Sarah Roberts, Sasha Dylan Bell, Sayge Conniff, Seb Calabretto, Sharifah Sorayya, Shayla Hanisch, Sienna Montgomery-Pittaway, Simone, Simone Kennedy, Simone Wise, Sonali Patel, Sophie Fagan, Sophie Goh, Sophie Zodrow, Stu Nankivell, Sue Ninham, Susan Charlton, Susanna Cooney, Susie Jenner, Suye Jung, Suzie Lockery, Tash Evele, Thom Buchanan, Tia Barr, Tiana Mitchell, Tom Borgas, Tori Nguyen, Tracey Hansell, Tracy Crisp, Trish Larkin, Tushar Patel, Véra Ada, Vern Schulz, Viola Rocca, Wan Vincy Chan, wang weiguo, Wee Shiang Tay, Wendy Campbell, Will Nolan, Willow Mader, WOODLAMBS, Xiangwei Wang, Yana Lehey, Yollie Boag, Yooyoung, Zel and more to come.

• LIMITLESS 2026 Awards

  For the first time, we are excited to announce the LIMITLESS Artists Awards.

  Recognising outstanding South Australian artists, the $500 awards are presented across four categories: 

  • The Fuller Award for Create Feeling

  • The CBS Disabled Artist Award 

  • The Scotch College Emerging Artist Award

  • People’s Choice Award supported by the K&S Langley Family

  Artists can nominate for multiple awards.

  Awards will be announced at the Finissage & Awards Night on October 9.

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The LIMITLESS 2026 Awards are supported by

First Nations Dance Residency 2026: Keisha Barrow

We are thrilled to announce Keisha Barrow as the recipient of the First Nations Dance Residency for 2026.

Keisha will be supported by WAYIN:THI Co-Leads Caleena Sansbury and Kaine Sultan-Babij during this residency.

This is a creative development and presentation platform available to South Australian performing artists working with contemporary culture. The aim of the residency is to offer place and space as part of a vibrant arts community for artists to develop and show new or existing work.

About the artist:

• Keisha Barrow

  Keisha Barrow is a Kaurna and Ngarrindjeri artist with over 20 years of experience in dance, specialising in Cultural dance, jazz, contemporary, and hip hop.

  Her artistic journey began in childhood through calisthenics and acrobatics, later expanding into choreography and performance with Riverland Youth Theatre and Kurruru Youth Performing Arts.

  A graduate of NAISDA Dance College and AC Arts, she has performed with Bangarra at the Sydney Opera House, as a core dancer with WAYIN:THI for Gluttony and contributed to major festivals including the Australian Youth Dance Festival, and worked alongside cultural leaders like Uncle Karl, Uncle Moogy and ODAS at Indigenous AFL events.

  Now an Aboriginal Community Education Officer at Victor Harbor Primary School, Keisha teaches dance to Nunga students and creates across a range of mediums including dot painting, weaving, sculpture, and song. Her work is deeply rooted in culture, community, and storytelling.

Photo: Kyahm Ross

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This project has support from

OzAsia Festival Residency 2026: Hanna Instrell-Walker

We are thrilled to announce Hanna Instrell-Walker as the recipient of the OzAsia Festival Residency for 2026.

Hanna will be collaborating with Alix Kuijpers, Caroline De Wan and Jazzy Williamson-Gray for this residency.

This is a creative development and presentation platform available to South Australian performing artists working with contemporary culture. The aim of the residency is to offer place and space as part of a vibrant arts community for artists to develop and show new or existing work.

About the artists:

• Hanna Instrell-Walker (Director/Choreographer)

  Hanna Instrell-Walker is a Japanese-Australian dance artist and creator working on Kaurna Land. Shortly after graduating from Adelaide College of the Arts, she co-founded Alchemy Dance Collective alongside colleagues

  Kate Burgess and Caroline De Wan. Alchemy has given Hanna a platform to produce her own work, SOUL (Adelaide Fringe 2023), plus co-produce and co-curate events and works including Trilogy Film Fest (2023) and J.A.C.D (2023-2024). Independently, Hanna has also choreographed as part of Mimi Yoshii’s Les Japonaises (2023), worked as tour manager for Alix Kuijpers’ Grim Grinning Ghosts for Melbourne Fringe 2024, as well as co-produced Kate Burgess’ Full Time Ex-Lover (Adelaide Fringe 2025).

  In Hanna’s current choreographic research, she is deeply influenced by the idea of quantum entanglement, intrinsic connection, manifestation, and the human subconscious. Movement styles such as Nihon Buyo, Butoh, plus Japanese horror aesthetics mixed with these philosophies make up Hanna’s interests when building work.

• Alix Kuijpers (Sound Designer)

  Alix Kuijpers is a multidisciplinary performing artist working across contemporary dance, choreography and sound design, with an independent queer practice.

  A graduate of Adelaide College of the Arts, Kuijpers creates dance theatre while generating original sound scores for their work. They were the first person to complete a dance honours at a South Australian institution, earning First-Class distinction for the solo IMMATERIAL. Their work has received major recognition, including the 2023 Adelaide Fringe Emerging Artist Award for the duo i know the end, and the 2024 Centre Stage and Dancehouse Residency awards at The Mill for the solo Grim Grinning Ghosts.

  In 2025 they joined the inaugural B12:Mavericks program in Berlin, supported by the Ian Potter Cultural Trust. Between 2023 and 2025 they contributed sound work to collaborations with Johannes Wieland (BER), Motus Collective (SA), Sarah Wilson (SA), Circus SA (SA) and Silverfish (NYC).

• Caroline De Wan (Movement Artist)

  Caroline De Wan started ballet at the age of 5. She realised her true interest lay in contemporary dance and began training at QL2 Dance. Here she worked with choreographers such as Kristina Chan, Daniel Riley, Sara Black, and James Batchelor. In 2018, Caroline choreographed and produced her first full length work for Sydney Fringe, To Fall in Love With An Artist.

  Following her return from Sydney she was commissioned for two further works, Comfort Ending II, performed at the Canberra Museum and Gallery, and You're Not Special (because you went to a party) performed at a rave.

  Caroline moved to Adelaide in 2019 to complete a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Dance). After graduating, Caroline founded Alchemy Dance Collective with Kate Burgess and Hanna Instrell-Walker, providing performance and training opportunities to the Adelaide dance community. She has also developed a keen interest in dance videography and teaches accessible videography skills to other artists.

• Jazzy Williamson-Gray (Movement Artist)

  Jazzy is a movement artist and performer based on Kaurna Yerta (Adelaide, South Australia). She graduated with a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Dance) from Adelaide College of the Arts and has since worked internationally with ilDance’s ilYoung program in their production of Skin Issues.

  She has also worked with Australian Dance Theatre, Restless Dance Theatre, Sound of Circus Australia, and a variety of independent projects, allowing her to gain experience in diverse contexts and refine her artistic identity.

  Jazzy’s choreographic interests include explorations of the complexities of the human condition and embracing the unusual and uncomfortable, including exploring social, political and philosophical matters and darker themes, often using improvisation as a tool to uncover potent world-building and rich imagery.

  Her evolving movement language is grounded in elements of tension, release, and interrupted momentum to invite unexpected pathways and possibilities within the body.

• Sophie Hollingworth (Movement Artist)

  Sophie is an Australian dance artist, teacher, and performer based on Kaurna Country. 

  Her practice is rooted in deep research, focusing on movement as a process of constant exploration in intuition, physicality, and deep listening. She is profoundly interested in investigating how being present in different places transforms and influences her body, mind and dance.

  Since her graduation from Adelaide College of the Arts in 2022, Sophie has been privileged to work alongside many Australian artists and companies. Making her professional debut in 2023 in Motus Collective’s The Leftovers, she has since collaborated and performed works with DanceHub, Shifting Lives Theatre, Motus Collective, Murk Lurker, Tayla Hoadley, Alix Kujipers, Isobel Stolinski, and Zoë Dunwoodie. Sophie’s work the great thinning premiered in early 2026 as part of NEW ROMANTICS, winning Weekly Best in Dance at the 2026 Adelaide Fringe Festival. This was Sophie’s first self-choreographed and solo-performed work, marking a significant and exciting milestone in her creative career thus far.

Photo: Melodee Meehan

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This residency has support from

Dance Residency 2026: Marcus Louend

We are thrilled to announce Marcus Louend as the recipient of the Dance Residency for 2026.

Marcus will be collaborating with Nat Penney and Paige Neis-Beer during this residency.

This is a creative development and presentation platform available to South Australian performing artists working with contemporary culture. The aim of the residency is to offer place and space as part of a vibrant arts community for artists to develop and show new or existing work.

About the artist:

• Marcus Louend (Lead Artist)

  Marcus Louend is a dancer, performance artist, and choreographer seeking to decentralise their movement and art practice through collective organisation.

  Using equitable social models, their ambition is to help educate individuals seeking deeper connection and understanding to movement and its radical potential physically, emotionally, and socially.

  Marcus currently works as a tutor and guest performer with Restless Dance Theatre, Australia's leading company working with neurodiverse and disabled artists. This partnership continuously offers the opportunity to inclusively work with the broader community—artists and non-artists—making movement accessible to everyone, and diversifying future practices.

  As a mentor, creator, and performer, their work seeks to innovatively dismantle personal, social, structural, and systemic barriers, in order to recalibrate somatic experiences into a sustainable practice.

• Nat Penney (Set Design)

  Nat Penney (b.1991) is an artist based in Tarntanya (Adelaide).

  Combining processes from timber furniture making and metal fabrication with found and formed objects, she considers the sensory desires in things, looking for subconscious object impulses. She’s driven by an obsession and confusion over psychological and emotional states and their reciprocal exchange with our relationships, environments, and the objects we engage with.

  Recent works are drawing from experiences of loneliness and how they are shaped not only by absence, but by conditional presence. Looking into the atmosphere of familial domesticity she searches for pleasing points of interconnectedness between the familiar and the eerie; for absurdist moments that engage themselves through futile motion and maybe make you smirk.

  Her practice often incorporates materials weighted heavily in nostalgia, such as tiles from her renovated childhood bathroom or her parents’ wooden tennis racquets, embedding personal histories into sculptural objects. These materials act as communicators and carriers of memory, yet memory and nostalgia themselves are malleable, untrustworthy, and sometimes irresponsible, reshaping perception and altering what we take to be truth.

• Paige Neis-Beer (Costume)

  Paige Neis-Beer (she/her) is an artist and stylist with over seven years of experience in the fashion industry, across London and Kaurna Land.

  Her practice spans styling, costume-making and product design. Working between fashion and wearable art, and more recently with silicone as a core medium, her practice draws on the surreal and the strange, fusing the grotesque with the beautiful.

  Paige has an ongoing fascination with visceral materials and explores unconventional approaches to making. Her work often explores themes of identity, whether as the observer or the observed.

  In February 2025, Paige undertook a 2.5 month residency at Household Gallery, where she collaborated with tattoo artist Hasini Wisna and developed a collection of wearable art pieces that mimic flesh-like forms and second skins. The residency marked a turning point in Paige’s practice, introducing new materials and sculptural processes that now sit at the centre of her work.

  Paige is continuously interested and passionate about collaboratively working with artists across different disciplines, to create space for conversation, exchange and connection.

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This residency has support from

Theatre Residency 2026: Nicky T. Li

We are thrilled to announce Nicky T. Li as the recipient of the Theatre Residency for 2026.

Nicky will be collaborating with Jamie Hornsby for this residency.

This is a creative development and presentation platform available to South Australian performing artists working with contemporary culture. The aim of the residency is to offer place and space as part of a vibrant arts community for artists to develop and show new or existing work.

About the artist:

• Nicky T. Li

  Nicky T. Li is a Kaurna-based Hong Kong artist with a passion for music theatre and experimental arts. She graduated from UniSA with a Bachelor of Arts in 2020. She developed and presented Signal: A Theatrical Mixtape through ActNow Theatre's MakeSpace Residency in 2022. Nicky was part of Nexus Arts’ 2023 Interplay cohort where she grew as a singer-songwriter. After receiving the Helpmann Creative Development Grant, she presented a sold out season of retro bilingual cabaret Leslie & Anita: Fallen Stars of Hong Kong in Adelaide Fringe 2024. Her work is highly endorsed by the local Hong Kong community and fellow Asian Australian artists. Through her work, she navigates through newfound identities and attempts to replant her heart in her heritage. In her performance, she speaks authenticity, in the hope of finding a community.

  Being socially conscious, she provided cultural consultancy to RUMPUS, State Theatre Company SA and Australian Dance Theatre. Nicky became a published reviewer through ArtsHub’s Amplify Collective and Helpmann Academy InReview Mentorship. 

  In 2025, Nicky made her professional stage debut in Adelaide Festival’s international opera Innocence. Nicky is currently a Captain Starlight at the Starlight Children's Foundation, bringing joy to sick children and their families in hospitals.

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This residency has support from

Scotch College Residency 2026: Piri Eddy

We are thrilled to announce Piri Eddy as the recipient of the 2026 Scotch College Residency.

In partnership with Scotch College, Piri will receive a six-week paid residency within the English Faculty. Aiming to help further develop students’ writing and communication skills responding to creative themes.

About the writer:

• Piri Eddy

  Piri Eddy is an award-winning writer and producer living and working on Kaurna land.

  As a screenwriter, Piri won Best Short Film at the 54th AWGIE awards for The Last Elephant on Earth, which had its international premiere at the prestigious Sitges Film Festival. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in such places as The Saturday Paper, Island Magazine, and Westerly Magazine and he has written arts criticism and reviews for Australian Book Review and CityMag. 

  Piri’s debut play Forgiveness won the 2020 Jill Blewett Playwright’s Award. His follow-up The Spoil was nominated for the same award in 2024 and was a finalist for the 2026 Australian Theatre Festival NYC New Play Award.

  Piri has been a writer-in-residence at the Adelaide Festival Theatre, The Mill, and Writers SA, and was a 2025 SA Literary Fellow at the State Library South Australia. He has a PhD in Creative Writing from Flinders University.

Photo: Courtesy of the writer

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Presented in partnership with Scotch College

Theatre Residency: Nicky T. Li, Signal 2.0

Photo: Courtesy of the artist

Showing and Q&A

When: Friday, August 14, 6-7pm

Where: The Breakout at The Mill, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: $10 (+ booking fee)

Note: Please arrive 15 minutes early to grab a drink. This event will be 1 hour (including a Q&A). 

• Getting to the showing

  This showing and Q&A will be held in The Breakout. Please come to The Mill at 154 Angas Street, the bar will be open to grab a drink before we take you through to The Breakout.

  Please arrive at 5:45pm for a 6pm sharp start.

  This event will be 1 hour (including the Q&A).

  Accessibility

  Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, access the pedestrian ramp on the corner of Gunson St to get to our front door, which will be open.

  The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

  Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.

  If you have questions or would like to talk to one of The Mill team contact info@themilladelaide.com

Signal 2.0 is a new multidisciplinary work in response to the Hong Kong political climate.

This first stage development is led by Nicky T. Li in collaboration with Jamie Hornsby, under the mentorship of Valerie Berry and Joon-Yee Kwok. Hong Kong artists Vincy Chan, Lok. and Chris Siu have provided cultural consultation. 

Signal 2.0 explores “how do we keep living without forgetting.” This work serves as a reminder that the revolution is not over, but simply, dormant. 

This is a story for every person who has had their culture and identity suppressed, whether that is in the past, or now. 

The work in progress will include elements of the work developed throughout this residency, followed by a short Q&A with Nicky and her creative team, hosted by The Mill CEO/Artistic Director Katrina Lazaroff.

Audiences will have the opportunity to ask questions about the development and provide feedback about the performance.

About the artists:

• Nicky T. Li

  Nicky T. Li is a Kaurna-based Hong Kong artist with a passion for music theatre and experimental arts. She graduated from UniSA with a Bachelor of Arts in 2020. She developed and presented Signal: A Theatrical Mixtape through ActNow Theatre's MakeSpace Residency in 2022. Nicky was part of Nexus Arts’ 2023 Interplay cohort where she grew as a singer-songwriter. After receiving the Helpmann Creative Development Grant, she presented a sold out season of retro bilingual cabaret Leslie & Anita: Fallen Stars of Hong Kong in Adelaide Fringe 2024. Her work is highly endorsed by the local Hong Kong community and fellow Asian Australian artists. Through her work, she navigates through newfound identities and attempts to replant her heart in her heritage. In her performance, she speaks authenticity, in the hope of finding a community.

  Being socially conscious, she provided cultural consultancy to RUMPUS, State Theatre Company SA and Australian Dance Theatre. Nicky became a published reviewer through ArtsHub’s Amplify Collective and Helpmann Academy InReview Mentorship. 

  In 2025, Nicky made her professional stage debut in Adelaide Festival’s international opera Innocence. Nicky is currently a Captain Starlight at the Starlight Children's Foundation, bringing joy to sick children and their families in hospitals.

• Jamie Hornsby

  Jamie Hornsby is an award-winning playwright, performer, composer, photographer and emerging screenwriter. He is the winner of two AWGIE Awards from the Australian Writers' Guild, including the prestigious David Williamson Prize for Excellence in Writing for Australian Theatre, as well as the Frank Ford Memorial Young Achiever Ruby Award.

  His work has been seen nationally and internationally, most recently with his play Python being presented for three Off-Broadway readings as part of the 2024 Australian Theatre Festival NYC. He received his third AWGIE nomination in 2026 for We've Got All The Time in the World* (Terms and Conditions Apply).

  He has been commissioned three times by Jopuka Productions, most recently for The Boys on the Bus, remounted in 2023 at ATYP’s Rebel Theatre in Sydney. He has written for ActNow Theatre/State Theatre Company South Australia’s Decameron 2.0, and he has been a finalist in the Shane and Cathryn Brennan Prize for Playwriting, the Stoddard Playwright Award, and the Australian Theatre Festival’s New Play Award. 

  Recent composing credits include The Glass Menagerie (State Theatre Company South Australia) and Four Quartets (Wounded Surgeon/Old Fitz, Sydney)

  He is the cofounder of acclaimed independent theatre company Madness of Two, whose most recent production Starweaver premiered as part of the State Theatre Company South Australia’s 2024 STATESIDE Season to rave reviews. He is a graduate of Adelaide College of the Arts as an actor.

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This residency has support from

Exhibition: Tony Busch, Closer Horizons II

Image: Tony Busch, Sandstone arch, Sellicks, 2026, hand dyed jute, hand dyed cotton warp, 46 x 68 cm, Photo: Sam Roberts.

May 25 - July 17, 2026

Opening: Friday, May 29, 5:30-7:30pm

Gallery I, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

• Visiting the exhibition

  You can find Tony’s exhibition in The Mill’s Gallery I, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

  Gallery I is open Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm.

  Accessibility

  The Mill’s entrance has a small step into the building. We have a ramp available, please ring the doorbell and our friendly team will assist you.

  During gallery hours, our entrance will be unlocked. If the door is closed, please ring the doorbell to alert our team.

  The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

  Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

  Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.

We are thrilled to present Closer Horizons II, a new exhibition of woven textiles by Tony Busch. In this exhibition Tony brings audiences into a sense of place, exploring local landscapes; Warripari Sturt Gorge, Aldinga and Sellicks beach. Through the act of walking, Tony has gathered inspiration from the uniquely South Australian landscape- texture, colour, shape are translated through Tony’s chosen material.

Slow and generous appreciation are also part of Tony’s process- his use of hand dyed cotton warp, hand dyed jute and yarn on his hand built frame looms attenuate the pace of creation. This allows for the both the artist and audiences attention to be drawn slowly across the surface of works- we take notice of subtle shifts in tone and texture, and an understanding of the gesture of the artists hand that have skilfully manipulated the raw materials into abstracted forms. Like the act of walking, the slow process of building these woven landscapes creates a deep appreciation of beauty, and reverence for the life-force of the landscape.

• About the artist

  Tony Busch graduated in 2023 with a Bachelor of Visual Art (Hons FC) from Adelaide Central School of Art. He has been weaving for three years and is entirely self-taught. Influenced by Magdalena Abakanowicz, his work is an abstraction of natural forms, finding his cues in nature and translating the textures and surfaces he encounters into three-dimensional woven forms. His first solo exhibition at Mrs Harris’ Shop was a virtual sell-out and he has enjoyed subsequent solo exhibitions at praxisARTSPACE and Sauerbier House, Port Noarlunga, where he was the recipient of a 12-week residency in 2025. Over the past 2 years, Tony has also been involved in 6 group exhibitions including Adelaide Design Week, Fabrik in Lobethal, and 6 Manton Gallery. In 2024 he was awarded the Emerging Artist Prize at the Fleurieu Biennale as well as the Highly Commended Prize in the Irene Davies International Award at the Australian Tapestry Workshop.

• Artist Statement

  Walking and weaving are entwined for me; one feeds the other. Walking ties me to place and this ‘sense of place’ feeds my creative energies which find their outlet in the process of weaving. Thus my work is an exploration of the elusive expression of place, specifically the Sturt Gorge, Warripari in Kaurna language, south of Adelaide, and the coast around Aldinga and Sellick’s Beach. Walking a landscape deepens my understanding of its beauty, its energy and its importance as I learn about its changing seasonal face, its bones, its structure and its content. My work is an abstraction of natural forms. I find my cues in nature and then try to express the essence of the textures and surfaces I encounter. I choose to work with jute fibre because I believe its textural qualities are closest to those found in the Australian landscape. I hand-dye it to achieve subtle variations in colour and use frame looms I built myself. I also continue to experiment with dyeing my cotton warp to mimic the effects of underpainting, deliberately allowing a little of the warp thread to show through the weft in places. My practice continues a dialogue with materiality, giving agency to the materials I works with and exploring the potential opportunities they provide. Each work is woven in a continuous piece, not sewn together, and employs techniques I developed myself to add a third dimension to the traditional flat woven surface. 

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Exhibition: Kathrine Hoffman and Anna Goodhind, You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior

Image: Anna Goodhind, Face to Face (detail), courtesy of the artist

May 25 - July 17, 2026

Opening: Friday May 29, 5:30-7:30pm

Gallery I, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

• Visiting the exhibition

  You can find You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior’s exhibition in The Mill’s Gallery II, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

  The Mill’s galleries is open Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm.

  Accessibility

  The Mill’s entrance has a small step into the building. We have a ramp available, please ring the doorbell and our friendly team will assist you.

  During gallery hours, our entrance will be unlocked. If the door is closed, please ring the doorbell to alert our team.

  The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

  Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

  Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.

We are thrilled to present You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior, a new exhibition featuring work by Kathrine Hoffman and Anna Goodhind. This exhibition explores colour, repetition and form through ceramics and collage, looking at how artists build meaning through layering, repetition and pattern. Both Anna and Kathy are current studio artists at The Mill.

Kathrine's intuitive abstract ceramics are built using the Japanese nerikomi technique, working with coloured clay to build patterns that are embedded into the body of her vessels. Using the slow, repetitive technique Katherine creates unique abstract designs, experimenting with colour theory to draw the eye across the surface of the vessel. She says 'For me working with clay is very tactile. I find the connection between the hand, the eye and the brain and the repetition very calming.'

Anna brings a series of collage works to the exhibition, using found images to build narrative through colour and form. Each collage becomes a window into a world, opening a conversation to themes of life, and death, geology, the passing of time and the universe. We see delightfully unexpected characters on backgrounds of repeated patterns, nature and science brought together with infinite horizons.

This exhibition takes its title from Carolina Ebeid's poem 'You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior', a poem about humanness- made of wilderness & sky, a new anatomy, an overbright comet burning through the infinite. Like the poem, Kathrine's works fold and repeat, creating an infinite and intricate interiority. Nerikomi traditionally reflects the harmony of nature and as an expression of the artist's soul. Likewise, Anna's work speaks to the human condition, the interiority of each of us that is complex and in flux, and part of a web of connection through systems of biology and physics, of community and care.

• About Kathrine

  Artist Statement

  Traditionally an abstract painter, I began working with clay after a brain injury. I found it hard to go back to painting, I knew I should be able to paint but couldn’t. Working with clay was good therapy for me; the tactile nature of clay enriched my psychosocial care as well as my physical and cognitive recovery. My motor function and memory skills also improved. Around this time I met Anna Couper, a local ceramic artist, and she has been my friend and mentor through this journey. 

  Working with clay brings a sense of calm in my body and mind. It is an escape that taps into my body’s relaxation response and brings me a sense of peace far away from the chaos that lives in my head. 

  I began working with Nerikomi about five years ago. I have given up a few times because it is a long process and at first, has few rewards. Nerikomi is a traditional Japanese ceramic technique involving stacking, folding and slicing coloured clay to create intricate patterns that run through the clay body. I think that what kept drawing me back to Nerikomi was the connection i found between abstract painting and Nerikomi. I don’t start out to make a particular pattern, I just fold, manipulate and slice the clay and see what pattern is created making decisions as I work just as I do when painting. 

  Biography

  Kathrine Hoffman graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Adelaide Central School of Art in 2019, where she was mentored in ceramic by Anna Couper. In 2025 she exhibited in the Red House Group Exhibition at Gallery M, as part of a SALA Exhibition at Fraser Hay Gallery and had works on display at Adelaide Central School of Art. She was a finalist in the 2023 Watershed Art Prize and the Little Things exhibition (NSW). Her work has also featured in the Campbelltown Arts Show, Murray Bridge Art Show and Victor Harbour Art Show. She currently has a studio at The Mill.

• About Anna

  Anna Goodhind is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice centres around themes of family, mortality and the natural world. Working across various mediums including painting, textile, collage, sculpture and installation, Goodhind often explores existential conflict within the human condition through the subjective experience of the individual.

  Her most recent solo exhibition Presence – Absence at Sauerbier House in November 2024, opened up a means for grieving through a reshaping of time, place and inheritance following the death of her mother in 2018 and her father in 2023. Goodhind also works as an art installer and exhibition curator. Her continuing practice focuses on a process of exploration and experimentation.

• You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior, Carolina Ebeid

  You ask me to talk
                 about the interior

  it was all roadside flowers & grasses
                 growing over the cities

  was made of wilderness & sky
                 with God washed out of it

  was the foreign prayer-word
                 it was a list of missing persons

  was the solid bronze charging
                 bull on the famous street

  was like the Roman method for making bees

  was its taken-down carcass
                 & its bed of apple-branches & thyme

  was a new anatomy      a beaten hide
                 a skeleton sweetening to glowing fluids

  & the bee born out & the grist of them born
                 glistening as coins

  it was anthem
                 was the listening

  the way a searchlight listens over a lake
                 it was the prayer-word out of your mouth

  your thousand-noun request
                 it goes up up to the florescent weather

  was hurdle & burn      burning through
                 the infinite      your overbright comet

  was made of stones      made of berries & plastic & boxtops & eggshells
                 it was like the word having reached the ear

  & the words pollinated the dark      there was darkness there
                               like the afterhours inside a library

  About Carolina Ebeid

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WAYIN:THI, NAIDOC Week work-in-progress performance

Photo: Kyahm Ross.

Showing and Q&A

When: Friday, July 3, 4-5pm

Where: The Breakout at The Mill, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: $10 (+ booking fee)

Note: Please arrive 15 minutes early to grab a drink. This event will be 1 hour (including a Q&A).

• Getting to the showing

  This showing and Q&A will be held in The Breakout. Please come to The Mill at 154 Angas Street, the bar will be open to grab a drink before we take you through to The Breakout.

  Please arrive 15 minutes early to get a drink.

  This event will be 1 hour (including the Q&A).

  Accessibility

  The Mill’s entrance has a small step into the building. We have a ramp available, please ring the doorbell and our friendly team will assist you.

  The entrance into The Breakout is wheelchair accessible, with no internal steps.

  The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

  Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.

  The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

  Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.

  If you have questions or would like to talk to one of The Mill team contact info@themilladelaide.com

Join us for a work-in-progress performance inspired by 50 years of NAIDOC celebrations through contemporary Indigenous dance.

Facilitated by WAYIN:THI Co-Leads Caleena Sansbury and Kaine Sultan-Babij, produced by The Mill, with dancers Keisha Barrow, Kathleen Rankine, Rikki Wilson and Tiarna Power.

This intimate performance offers an early glimpse into the creative process, followed by a conversation with the artists.

Photo: Kyahm Ross

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Finissage: Closer Horizons II, You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior

Image: Tony Busch, Sandstone arch, Sellicks, 2026, hand dyed jute, hand dyed cotton warp, 46 x 68 cm, Photo: Sam Roberts.

July 17, 2026

Finissage: Friday, July 17, 4:30-6:30pm

Galleries, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

• Visiting the exhibition

  You can find Tony’s exhibition in The Mill’s Gallery I, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

  Gallery I is open Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm.

  Accessibility

  The Mill’s entrance has a small step into the building. We have a ramp available, please ring the doorbell and our friendly team will assist you.

  During gallery hours, our entrance will be unlocked. If the door is closed, please ring the doorbell to alert our team.

  The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

  Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

  Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.

We invite you to join us for the closing event for Closer Horizons II and You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior.

Closer Horizons II is an exhibition of woven textiles by Tony Busch. In this exhibition Tony brings audiences into a sense of place, exploring local landscapes; Warripari Sturt Gorge, Aldinga and Sellicks beach. Through the act of walking, Tony has gathered inspiration from the uniquely South Australian landscape- texture, colour, shape are translated through Tony’s chosen material.

You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior is an exhibition featuring work by Kathrine Hoffman and Anna Goodhind. This exhibition explores colour, repetition and form through ceramics and collage, looking at how artists build meaning through layering, repetition and pattern. Both Anna and Kathy are current studio artists at The Mill.

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WAYIN:THI Performances

WAYIN:THI creates greater visibility for powerful cultural storytelling through movement and performance.

The dance theatre ensemble have performed at the 2025 Ruby Awards, 2026 Adelaide Fringe Award Ceremony, Blak Night at Carclew, Common Threads Summit, 2026 Gluttony Gala and more.

Photo: Courtesy Create SA

Photo: Kyahm Ross

Photo: Courtesy Create SA

Photo: Kyahm Ross

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Disability Access Studio 2026: Chloe Noble

We are thrilled to announce Chloe Noble as the recipient of the 2026 Disability Access Studio.

Chloe will receive a 6-month studio space in our community, and will work towards an exhibition outcome later this year.

About the artist:

• Chloe Noble

  Chloe Noble (she/they/he) is an emerging artist based in Kaurna Yerta / Adelaide.

  Their practice includes expressionist portraiture and impressionist landscapes, using watercolours, oils, acrylics and digital mediums. Noble transforms personal experiences into a unique visual language characterised by gestural mark making and vibrant colour harmonies.

  They often explore digital art, video, and installation, examining the interplay between traditional and contemporary mediums in relation to identity and place. Drawing from lived experiences of disability, chronic illness, neurodivergence, trauma and queerness, Noble creates deeply resonant works that engage emotional themes, inviting reflection and dialogue with audiences.

  They have previously held studio spaces at Collective Haunt Inc., Carclew, and Floating Goose Studios Inc.

Photo: Courtesy of the artist

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This program has support from

Exhibition: Toni Hassan, The Sea is Talking

Image: Toni Hassan, Behold, the Rainbow Cale (Heteroscarus acroptilus), detail, 2025, Photo: Pro Lab, courtesy of the artist

March 27 - May 15, 2026

Gallery I, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

• Visiting the exhibition

  You can find Toni’s exhibition in The Mill’s Gallery I, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

  Gallery I is open Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm.

  Special weekend opening hours, one-off Saturday April 11, 11am - 4pm, with both artists on site for a meet and greet.

  Accessibility

  The Mill’s entrance has a small step into the building. We have a ramp available, please ring the doorbell and our friendly team will assist you.

  During gallery hours, our entrance will be unlocked. If the door is closed, please ring the doorbell to alert our team.

  The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

  Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

  Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.

We are excited to present The Sea is Talking, a new exhibition by Toni Hassan. In this exhibition Toni works across multiple modalities to honour the lives of the countless marine creatures, some of which she witnessed dead, or struggling, as the South Australian coastline became impacted by the harmful algal bloom. Her regular walks along the city’s shoreline have revealed the incredible biodiversity of our local waters, sparking curiosity as well as sadness.

Through large scale coloured pencil drawings, video, and mixed media installation, Toni creates a feeling within the gallery akin to the emotional response she has had on the beach. We feel the physicality of the experience: a sense of awe, coupled with grief. We get a sense of the tide as it often was, washing in with creamy foam, and we observe an eel in a gripping dance, fighting for breath. Toni ponders our current environmental realities, positioning the algal bloom as a barometer for our world, asking, 'If the sea is talking, who's listening?' Further, 'What does it mean to truly listen?'

• About the artist

  Toni Hassan is an award-winning visual artist and writer. She is committed, in her multidisciplinary practice, to being a witness, seeking to express interconnections and inspire care. In her drawing, painting, digital and installation work she investigates contemporary events, patterns of human relating and nature (including non-human centric perspectives).

  This is Toni’s third solo show since she graduated from the School of Art and Design at the Australian National University in 2021. Her artwork is held in public and private collections.

• Artist Statement

  These works respond to what I encountered on walks along the beaches of Adelaide’s Gulf of St Vincent and south, along the Fleurieu Peninsula in 2025. I felt the sea was talking. Countless marine creatures appeared, like secrets of the sea. Their appearance provoked both pathos and surprising awe and delight.

  All life forms have intrinsic value, independent of their utility to us. Environmental events challenge us at many levels, as planet Earth talks. With the harmful algal bloom, I began to wonder, again, ‘What is mine to do?’ I was provoked to consider the role of ecological ethics that can be expressed through art. As Ashlee Cunsolo and Karen Landman argue in their introduction to Mourning Nature: Hope at the Heart of Ecological Loss and Grief (2017), it is vital to "disrupt the dominance of humans and expand the circle of the grievable beyond the human.”

  Drawing allowed for a meditation on nature’s beauty and abundance, and our interconnectedness and dependence on nature. While hearing nature groan, there was something about noticing contour and shape, colour and texture, that helped open up space to move from disenchantment to enchantment. Material collected along the seashore inspired other work that allowed for play, helping process my sense of loss and to express hope of renewal.

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Exhibition: Anthea Tsigros Jones, Think Differently

Image: Anthea Tsigros Jones, The snail and the unicorn (detail), 2026, courtesy of the artist

March 27 - May 15, 2026

Gallery II, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

• Visiting the exhibition

  You can find Toni’s exhibition in The Mill’s Gallery I, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

  Gallery I is open Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm.

  Special weekend opening hours, one-off Saturday April 11, 11am - 4pm, with both artists on site for a meet and greet.

  Accessibility

  The Mill’s entrance has a small step into the building. We have a ramp available, please ring the doorbell and our friendly team will assist you.

  During gallery hours, our entrance will be unlocked. If the door is closed, please ring the doorbell to alert our team.

  The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

  Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

  Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.

We are excited to present Think Differently, a new exhibition by Anthea Tsigros Jones. In Think Differently Anthea explores personal narratives through a series of fantastical, embellished and slightly surreal paintings, collages and sculptures. Reimagining childhood scenarios, Anthea places versions of herself amongst world filled with strange dolls and unsettling horizons.

In these works, she utilises her training in classical realism, slipping seamlessly between crisp renditions and loose, painterly backgrounds that conceal more than they reveal. In Hot Chicks she references the Three Graces of greek mythology, with blonde and blue eyed nude barbie dolls bringing to light Anthea’s experience of misogyny and patriarchy.

Alongside her paintings, she presents new sculptural installations - dioramas of a life imagined through playfulness. Anthea’s Think Differently- the 3 (dis)graces) places three nude barbies (as seen in the previously mentioned painting) inside a two story gallery and studio, complete with holographic wallpaper, disco lights and an eternally spinning circular platform. We see their blank faces and abject sections of their bodies reflected back at us from the mirror, while outside the walls of the doll house are plastered graffiti style with misogynistic slurs.

Layered paper collages form the third and significant part of this exhibition, showcase Anthea’s unique process. Through these works, she shares the playful, open and responsive process that she uses to develop compositions for her paintings. Artworks in their own right, these multimedia works mirror the themes of the exhibition, speaking about childhood desires, awkward social interactions, and time spent alone engrossed in her own world.

Through Think Differently, Anthea speaks to the pressures of women of her generation - the expectations of her parents, the role she took on as a wife and mother, and now the freedom of expression she experiences as an artist. Alongside the dark and surreal elements, we are also offered joy and play; Anthea’s pleasure is palpable in The pavilion of dreams, a circus tent complete with carousel of unicorns and twinkling fairy lights, made spontaneously with complete submission to her inner child- an absolute delight!

• About the artist

  Anthea is a visual artist born in Millicent, now residing in Adelaide.

  Deriving new found pleasure from creating with mixed media, she has fused textiles, paper and found objects to create this body of work, Think Differently, expanding her ouvre beyond self-imposed strictures that limited her exhibited arts practice to drawing and painting.

  Think Differently is Anthea’s first solo exhibition since completing formal studies in 2023 and two self-directed residencies in France in 2024/25. Her formal qualifications include an Advanced Diploma in Visual and Applied Art, a Graduate Diploma in Management (Arts), a Graduate Certificate in Art History and a Diploma in Atelier Arts.

  Anthea’s formal studies have been supplemented by a summer school at the London Academy of Realist Art and a week of life painting with the acclaimed Shane Wolf in the UK.

  Anthea has exhibited in numerous shows and her work is held in private collections in Adelaide, Melbourne, Washington, New York and The Diderot Collection at Château d’Orquevaux.

  If there was one word Anthea would use to describe her arts practice it would be meraki, a Greek word meaning the act of doing something with soul, creativity or love, putting “something of yourself” into the work. It signifies leaving a piece of your essence in what you do and describes a total devotion to a project.

• Artist Statement

  Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high,
  There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby, Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue,
  And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true..’

  This song has always resonated with me. I love rainbows. They are truly beautiful. No one can ever own one. To create a magnificent rainbow we need the rain and the sunshine and to truly appreciate the visual experience one must be fully present in the moment it occurs. Serendipity, synchronicity and magic all come to mind when I think of rainbows and I’m always transported to far away places when I encounter one during an ordinary day.

  Think Differently began, earnestly, in 2024 as purely a painting project. This singular mission took a compelling turn when due to personal development work I found myself questioning my life experiences in general and how I used them in the context of self expression, particularly in my art practice. It felt imperative that I address this yearning to invoke my authentic artistic voice, in whatever capacity it was available to me.

  Think Differently evolved, organically when I became engrossed in my creative ‘side hustles’ away from the easel and I realised this was where the joy was hiding. By reinventing old art works and creating new narratives I found history in the layers and textures of these works, both conceptually as well as physically.

  Thus, it would be fair to say that my authentic practice is structured, academic traditional painting and drawing techniques fused with mixed media collage, sewing and construction.

  Reflecting my childhood practice of making do, my aesthetic is Greek Village Chic - start where you are, use what you have, do what you can. Without exception, every piece in the exhibition started life as something else and I relish the challenge of turning trash into treasure.

  “Everything begins with a story” - Joseph Campbell

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Dance Residency 2026: Tobiah Booth-Remmers, In The End

We are thrilled to announce Tobiah Booth-Remmers as a Dance Residency recipient for 2026.

Tobiah will be in residency for two weeks, continuing his research and development of his latest work In The End.

This piece builds on ideas explored in Damaged Goods and From The Other Side of Chaos. It is an ode to humanity's tenacity in the face of constant pressure or adversity. Despite what is often a relentless cycle, we keep moving forward, supporting each other through uncertain moments and across unpredictable ground.

The piece experiments with an interactive set, a non-traditional performance format and structured improvisation.

The residency will culminate in a private showing for invited guests.

• About the artist

  Tobiah Booth-Remmers is a freelance dance director, performer and teacher originally from Adelaide, Australia. He has worked with a large variety of choreographers and directors across dance, theatre and circus, both nationally and internationally.

  Tobiah has performed in major arts festivals including the Adelaide Festival of the Arts (AUS), Brisbane Festival (AUS), WOMAD (AUS), Dance Massive (AUS), Dublin Dance Festival (IRE), Adelaide Fringe Festival (AUS) and has performed at the Barbican Centre in London.

  As a dance maker Tobiah has choreographed numerous commissioned and self-produced works, from large scale interactive pieces to theatrical solos. He has lectured on dance at Adelaide College of the Arts, LINK Honours Course, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Queensland University of Technology, Transit Dance and at Sydney Dance Company’s Pre-Professional Year. He has also taught for major dance companies such as DV8, Sydney Dance Company and Australian Dance Theatre.

  Tobiah regularly works internationally and has developed projects and taught workshops on his own artistic practice in Belgium, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, France, Israel and Mexico.

  In 2022 Tobiah was the Associate Artist at Australian Dance Theatre which saw him research and produce a new full length experimental performance work. In 2023 Tobiah took on the role of Program Manager at Sydney Dance Company’s Pre-Professional Year and in 2026 Tobiah began working with FORM Dance Projects as their Producer.

Image: Courtesy of the artist.

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FORUM: Our coast - creativity, responsibility and response

Image: Toni Hassan, Behold, the Rainbow Cale (Heteroscarus acroptilus), detail, 2025, Photo: Pro Lab, courtesy of the artist

Artist Forum

When: Friday, May 15, 5:30-7pm

Galleries, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, bookings essential

• Event details

  This artist led Forum will be in our Galleries, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

  Please arrive at 5:30pm for a 5:45pm dance performance by Sandy Marion, in response to the exhibition.

  6-7pm the forum will take place.

  Accessibility

  The Mill’s entrance has a small step into the building. We have a ramp available, please ring the doorbell and our friendly team will assist you.

  During gallery hours, our entrance will be unlocked. If the door is closed, please ring the doorbell to alert our team.

  The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

  Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

  Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.

We invite you to join us for an artist led forum discussing the impact of the South Australian algal bloom, and opening a discussion about climate, ecologies, and our place in the world.

This forum builds on The Sea is Talking, a new exhibition by Toni Hassan currently Showing in Gallery I. Speakers include Toni Hassan, ecologist Dr Faith Coleman, and curator Lindl Lawton. The forum will also include a short performance by artist Sandy Marion in response to Toni Hassan’s exhibited video work Death Dance (Longfinned worm eel, Scolecenchelys breviceps).

As chair of the panel, Toni brings her curiosity, advocacy background and creative insights to a lively conversation with a panel of special cross-disciplinary guests, exploring how creative practice can open new ways of thinking, feeling and responding to environmental change.

She asks; In the wake of South Australia’s devastating algal bloom, how can art help us make sense of ecological loss? And as the planet warms, what practical and imaginative roles can South Australians play in caring for our marine ecosystems?

About the artists:

• Toni Hassan

  Toni Hassan is an award-winning visual artist and writer. She is committed, in her multidisciplinary practice, to being a witness, seeking to express interconnections and inspire care. In her drawing, painting, digital and installation work she investigates contemporary events, patterns of human relating and nature (including non-human centric perspectives).

  This is Toni’s third solo show since she graduated from the School of Art and Design at the Australian National University in 2021. Her artwork is held in public and private collections.

• Dr Faith Coleman

  Faith Coleman comes from a family of environmentalists and primary producers, with multiple generations of her family working on the ecology of salinas, saltlakes and estuaries, so she was (quite literally) born with her feet in saline muds. She spent her childhood exploring tidal deltas, in some of the most remote regions of Australia. She is passionate about developing deep understandings of estuarine processes, integrated approaches to estuarine management, adaptive management of landscapes to preserve ecological features, climate change adaptation and sustainable natural resource use. Faith has also published under the name Faith S. Cook.

• Lindl Lawton

  Lindl Lawton has spent three decades in the cultural sector as an historian and museum curator, most notably as Senior Curator at the South Australian Maritime Museum. In 2016, she curated The Art of Science: Baudin’s Voyagers 1800–1804, a touring exhibition of scientific artworks from French collections, sparking her interest in how art can deepen our understanding of the natural world.

  Now Manager, Interpretation and Cultural Collections at the Adelaide Botanic Garden, she creates innovative ways to engage visitors with nature and foster environmental stewardship. Lindl manages the Museum of Economic Botany’s dynamic program of contemporary art exhibitions, where artists explore environmental challenges, respond to the Garden’s collections, and interrogate its colonial foundations. She is committed to creating programs where art, science, and community experience converge to illuminate urgent environmental issues.

• Sandy Marion

  Sandy is a dance theatre maker, multidisciplinary artist/activist and community organiser living on Kaurna Yerta, Adelaide. She is passionate about using art and community building as tools for connection and transformation, to connect people more to themselves, to others and to the world around them.

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This forum has support from a Human.Kind Ripple Effect grant

Writer in Residence 2026: Melanie Bakewell

We are thrilled to announce Melanie Bakewell as the recipient of the 2026 Writer in Residence.

The Writer in Residence program, in partnership with CityMag, supports emerging writers from a variety of disciplines. The program creates a broader audience for writing through leadership, mentorship and publication.

About the writer:

• Melanie Bakewell

  I’m an emerging writer, audio producer and artist currently based on Kaurna land.

  I write essays, creative non-fiction and reportage, and my writing has been published in Australian literary magazines including Overland, Kill Yr Darlings, fine print and Debris Magazine (forthcoming 2026).

  With an interdisciplinary background in community media, art and audio documentary, my radio writing, audio storytelling and journalism has been published by community radio across Australia, ABC RN, and The Wheeler Centre (VIC).

  My print and digital journalism has been published in independent media outlet The Westsider, and RMIT’s The City Journal. I studied Creative Writing as part of my BA undergrad, and in 2024 completed a Grad Dip in Journalism from RMIT.

  My creative non-fiction and essays interrogate the systemic and personal, with a particular interest in social justice, community building and the arts, and I am a current member of Writers SA.

  Across print and audio, my practice favours local and community storytelling, arts profiles, access to justice, and community activism. I’m driven by responsible reportage and narrative beats, and love delving into story structure and stakes to find the most compelling way to hook a reader or listener.

  An experienced interviewer and in-depth researcher, I can flip between hard news and feature writing to personal essays and profiles, and love to creatively tackle nuance and context in features to make them accessible and engaging.

  Most recently, I was a scholarship recipient for Faber Academy’s short course Writing The Essay with cultural critic and essayist Eda Gunaydin in late 2025.

Photo: Melanie Bakewell

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The Writer in Residence program is presented in partnership with CityMag.

Photographer in Residence 2026: Zane Qureshi

We are thrilled to announce Zane Qureshi as the recipient of the Photographer in Residence program for 2026. Presented in partnership with the Ana and Christopher Koch Foundation Fund, Zane will receive a 12-month studio space in 2026 and an exhibition outcome as part of our Visual Arts Program in 2027.

About the artist:

• Zane Qureshi

  Zane Qureshi is a multi-talented neurodivergent photographer and designer based in Adelaide, South Australia. He loves capturing the raw beauty and emotion of his subjects, bringing fresh ideas to life, making new friends on set, and supporting fellow creatives and like-minded individuals. He specialises in fashion, editorial, and portrait photography.

  Additionally, he has experience with creative direction, casting, fashion styling, magazine/book publishing, curation, and event management. Driven by his passion for art and photography, Zane is dedicated to empowering young creatives through his self-run publication and community-driven project, FRND Magazine and independent casting agency showcasing diverse faces, FRND Models. He finds fulfilment in showcasing their unique talents and inspiring others to pursue their dreams.

Photo: @cashmereflipflops

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This residency has support from

Adelaide Fringe 2026: WAYIN:THI, 'Fibres'

Photo: Jack Fenby.

Adelaide Fringe 2026

When: February 20 - 22

Where: Tandanya Theatre, 253 Grenfell St, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: From $15-25

Duration: 60 minutes

• Getting to the show

  Fibres will be held at Tandanya Theatre.

  Accessibility

  Tandanya has step-free mobility aid access through the main entrance with an accessible bathroom.

  For more detailed accessibility information visit FringeTIX.

This work explores the natural fibres — once used for healing, weaving, storytelling, dance, painting and crafting. More than resources, these fibres hold story, culture and connection to Country. Through touch, texture and movement, we follow the gestures of threading, knotting, interweaving and mending, drawing on their strength and care. Dance becomes a bridge between fibre and story, body and Country.

This work is presented by WAYIN:THI Collective produced by The Mill - a bold new platform grounded in culture, self-determination, and performance-making. The Collective is dedicated to amplifying the voices of South Australian First Nations dance and performance artists.

This is movement. This is story. This is WAYIN:THI.

• About the artists

  Caleena Sansbury is a prominent First Nations artist whose diverse background and extensive experience have established her as a leading figure in the arts. Her heritage, encompassing Ngarrindjeri, Narungga, and Kaurna cultures, deeply influences her work and perspective.

  A graduate of NAISDA Dance College, Caleena’s career spans various disciplines including performance, choreography, and program coordination. She has showcased her talents on both national and international stages, working with respected artists and companies.

  Her notable collaborations include:

  • Vicki Van Hout on productions like Long Grass and Les Festivities Lubrufier.

  • Thomas E. S. Kelly on the performance work [MIS]CONCEIVE.

  • Karul Projects on the piece SSHIFT.

  Caleena’s experience extends to children's theatre, where she has performed in shows produced by InSite Arts such as Saltbush and Our Corka Bubs, and with Polyglot Theatre in Tangled. Her work demonstrates a deep understanding of both dance and theatre, particularly in contexts involving young audiences.

  In addition to her performance career, she has contributed to theatre as an actor in Legs On the Wall’s The Man With The Iron Neck and has showcased her organizational skills as a producer for the Melbourne Fringe in 2018. She has also toured South Australia with Taree Sansbury’s Mi:wi 2019, and performed in Jacob Boheme’s dance work Gurranda in 2024. Caleena continues to perform and practice dance in and throughout South Australia. 

  Currently, Caleena is a Program Coordinator at The Mill, an award-winning multi-disciplinary arts organisation. Her role at The Mill continues to reflect her commitment to fostering a vibrant and dynamic First Nations arts community.

  Arrernte and Gurindji Contemporary Dance Artist, Kaine Sultan-Babij, is making a lasting impact on the world of dance and drag.

  With a background that includes performing with Leigh Warren and Dancers, Bangarra Dance Theatre, and the Australian Dance Theatre, Kaine has skilfully blended Contemporary Dance and Contemporary Indigenous Dance. Based in Kaurna Country, Kaine stands as an Independent Dancer and Choreographer, contributing to the vibrant Australian performing arts scene.

  Beyond Kaine's achievements in the dance world, the emergence of Estelle, a captivating Drag Performer and Persona, has added another layer to their artistic repertoire. Estelle quickly gained recognition, establishing herself as a standout performer in the Adelaide Drag Scene. Through electrifying performances, Estelle has earned a respected place in the realm of drag.

  Together, Kaine and Estelle embody a powerful fusion of Tradition, creativity, and contemporary expression, making a lasting impression on the dance and drag communities in Australia.

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Fibres is supported by the Government of South Australia through CreateSA, a Nexus Arts 40 for 40 Quick Response grant and funding from The Adelaide Fringe Fund